Psi-Judge Karyn is a fictional character from the Judge Dredd comic strip in British comic 2000 AD. Along with Judge Janus, she was an attempted replacement for Judge Anderson who had left Justice Department in 1993. John Freeman wrote most of her solo stories and in 2014 said his last few "are pretty dire, to be frank"; the first Karyn solo strip hadn't been written for Adrian Salmon (there'd been an artist swap) but the second was written "knowing his strengths". When Anderson returned in 1995, Karyn disappeared from the strip except for the story "Judge Dredd: Fetish" in 1997: writer John Smith has stated this was originally written as Anderson but "in the end I wasn’t allowed to use her because she was off in outer space so we just substituted Karyn instead" (the strip had been long de